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Answer the questions on the attachment and upload your responses here.
A. How might you..
• Slow down and read cues from young children and families?
• Help families to slow down and read their children’s cues?
B. How might you . . .
• Use a child’s interests to support and expand learning?
• Support families in following their children’s interests?
C. How might you . . .
• Encourage families to consider how their children feel during responsive interactions with adults?
• Identify and share with families how responsive interactions support social-emotional development?
How might you slow down and read cues from young children and families?
Sensitive parenting, where moms and dads tune in to their child’s individual behaviors and adapt, is one of the keys to raising children. It turns out that mothers who breastfeed for six months or longer are also more likely to engage in sensitive parenting behavior. While breastfeeding is the best choice whenever possible, say the professors, it’s not breast milk or breastfeeding that aid a child’s cognitive development. It’s the interactions with a tuned-in parent that really make the difference.
How might you Help families to slow down and read their children’s cues?
Many cues occur when parents are interacting one-on-one with a child. An infant might show frustration when Mom is reading a book to him by arching his back or crumpling a page. Rather than plowing ahead to get the book read—Mom’s agenda—sensitive parenting would mean slowing down to figure out why the child is frustrated. Maybe he wants to read a different book. Maybe he wants to look at the pictures longer. Maybe he just wants to go to sleep.
As parents better understand their child’s cues, one way to respond sensitively is to narrate aloud what they’re thinking and doing: “Oh—you want me to turn the pages faster. Okay, let’s go faster.” Cue-sensitive parenting with small children means maintaining warmth and encouragement no matter how much a child is struggling.
“You’re finding out what is causing the frustration, helping him calm down, and meeting his needs rather than yours,” says Forste.
Parents’ understanding of one child’s cues isn’t necessarily transferable to another child. This may seem like an obvious principle, but it’s not so easy in practice.
How might you use a child’s interests to support and expand learning?
Parents or guardians role in supporting children’s learning includes:
A. Developing and supporting children’s feelings of security and well-being.
B.Encouraging children to try, to have a go.
C.Making sure children can repeat experiences.
D.Giving children time and opportunity to develop their skills
E. Using the learning opportunities already ‘built in’ and available.
F. Developing your own knowledge and understanding of child development and how children think and learn.
G. Observing children, assessing what you see and planning to progress individual children’s learning forward.